French authorities are investigating the accusations, and government members scrambled to insist they're behaving properly. French restaurants have been closed since October to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and the country just entered a new partial lockdown in response to intensive care units again filling with COVID-19 patients. There's no point in going to work,” said Michele Feret, a nurse providing home care to virus patients in the town of Creil, north of Paris. “Let them go to restaurants,” she told The Associated Press, but warned that no one, including top officials, “has special protection” from the virus. France has reported more virus infections than any European country, and among the world’s highest death tolls, at 96,650.

Source: ABC News April 05, 2021 18:11 UTC